Trend Micro Antivirus up to 5795 Malware Detection access control

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A vulnerability was found in Trend Micro Antivirus (Anti-Malware Software) and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component Malware Detection. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The TAR file parser in Avira AntiVir 7.11.1.163, Antiy Labs AVL SDK 2.0.3.7, avast! Antivirus 4.8.1351.0 and 5.0.677.0, AVG Anti-Virus 10.0.0.1190, Bitdefender 7.2, Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, ClamAV 0.96.4, Command Antivirus 5.2.11.5, Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5.1.0.1, eSafe 7.0.17.0, F-Prot Antivirus 4.6.2.117, G Data AntiVirus 21, Ikarus Virus Utilities T3 Command Line Scanner 1.1.97.0, Jiangmin Antivirus 13.0.900, K7 AntiVirus 9.77.3565, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0.0.125, McAfee Anti-Virus Scanning Engine 5.400.0.1158, McAfee Gateway (formerly Webwasher) 2010.1C, Antimalware Engine 1.1.6402.0 in Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0, NOD32 Antivirus 5795, Norman Antivirus 6.06.12, PC Tools AntiVirus 7.0.3.5, Rising Antivirus 22.83.00.03, AVEngine 20101.3.0.103 in Symantec Endpoint Protection 11, Trend Micro AntiVirus 9.120.0.1004, Trend Micro HouseCall 9.120.0.1004, VBA32 3.12.14.2, and VirusBuster 13.6.151.0 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a TAR archive entry with a length field that exceeds the total TAR file size. NOTE: this may later be SPLIT into multiple CVEs if additional information is published showing that the error occurred independently in different TAR parser implementations.

The weakness was presented 03/21/2012 by Suman Jana (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at securityfocus.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2012-1457 since 02/29/2012. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/04/2022). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 74664 (openSUSE Security Update : ClamAV (openSUSE-SU-2012:0833-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family SuSE Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 165510 (SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for clamav (SUSE-SU-2012:0858-1)).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (74293) and Tenable (74664). See 4914, 4935, 4936 and 60507 for similar entries.

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Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Nessus ID: 74664
Nessus Name: openSUSE Security Update : ClamAV (openSUSE-SU-2012:0833-1)
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OpenVAS ID: 71536
OpenVAS Name: FreeBSD Ports: clamav
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02/29/2012 🔍
03/19/2012 +19 days 🔍
03/20/2012 +1 days 🔍
03/21/2012 +1 days 🔍
03/21/2012 +0 days 🔍
11/12/2012 +236 days 🔍
06/13/2014 +578 days 🔍
03/23/2015 +283 days 🔍
09/04/2022 +2722 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: trendmicro.com

Advisory: securityfocus.com⛔
Researcher: Suman Jana
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2012-1457 (🔍)
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X-Force: 74293
Vulnerability Center: 37160 - Multiple AntiVirus Products Bypass Malware Detection - CVE-2012-1457, Medium
SecurityFocus: 52610 - Multiple AntiVirus Products CVE-2012-1457 TAR File Scan Evasion Vulnerability
OSVDB: 80389

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Created: 03/23/2015 16:50
Updated: 09/04/2022 11:10
Changes: 03/23/2015 16:50 (70), 04/20/2017 22:17 (6), 11/30/2021 20:04 (3), 09/04/2022 11:10 (1)
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